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The problem is that webmin doesn't know the external hostname at install time, so this cant be done by default..
Pat Erler <perler@...> wrote:
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On 28 November 2012 17:54, Jamie Cameron <jcameron@...> wrote:
> - instead it does a reverse DNS lookup of the IP the browser is connected
> to. However, in cases like EC2 where that IP internal, it doesn't actually
> match the hostname the browser was using.
>
Couldn't you have it so that webmin checks if the hostname is a fully
qualified domain name? If it is, use that, if not use the reverse IP? I
know it'd be a bit of coding, but then we get the best of both worlds.

On 28 November 2012 20:03, Jamie Cameron <jcameron@...> wrote:
> I'll try that out, and see how it goes. Although it wouldn't help with EC2
> instances, as their default hostname is usually the internal name, not
> external.
It's usually one of the first things I change before installing webmin
anyway, thank you very much :)

btw, is it possible to use variables in miniserv.conf? we have centralized
our configuration files and would like to use something like
host=$HOSTNAME
in it.
PAT
On 28 Nov 2012 21:48, "Daniel Case" <danielcase10@...> wrote:
> On 28 November 2012 20:03, Jamie Cameron <jcameron@...> wrote:
>
>> I'll try that out, and see how it goes. Although it wouldn't help with
>> EC2 instances, as their default hostname is usually the internal name, not
>> external.
>
>
> It's usually one of the first things I change before installing webmin
> anyway, thank you very much :)
>
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